Overboard Returns With a Great Cast but That Same Horrifying Premise
At their core, both Overboards are traditional rich-person-learns-how-to-be-a-real-person farces, the kind of films Frank Capra and Preston Sturges used to direct in their sleep
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Jason Reitman Talks Tully, Parenthood, and Partnering With Diablo Cody
Juno, Young Adult, and the newly released Tully are a fascinating trilogy. Each follows a character at a time of transition. Juno, Mavis, and Marlo are all people in stasis, but they each stand at a turning point. Director Jason Reitman discussed that theme with New Times at the premiere of Tully during its opening-night premiere at Miami Film Festival.
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Fort Lauderdale Air Show, Star Wars Day, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, May 4 through 6.
A Guide to Free Comic Book Day 2018 in Miami
The presence of superhero costumes on Miami streets in springtime is a good indicator that it’s Free Comic Book Day, the annual nationwide celebration held the first Saturday of May. This Saturday, May 5, comic book fans will scour the streets for free comics and deals. This year’s Free Comic Book Day happens to fall on Cinco de Mayo…
Fort Lauderdale Pirate Festival Launches at Esplanade Park
Ahoy, matey, have ye a brand-new eye patch and nowhere to wear It? Are ye disappointed there is no new Pirates of the Caribbean movie coming out this summer? Are ye suffering the effects of scurvy? If ye answered “aye” to any of these questions, the inaugural Fort Lauderdale Pirate Festival just might be the event for you.
Stormy Daniels Is Coming to Miami Beach for Cam Con
With its combination of cam girls, marijuana industry experts, and tattoo artists and aficionados, the Cons was already set to be a huge event. Now, the convention that’s bringing three of the biggest alt-lifestyle cultures together May 29 through June 1 at the SLS South Beach has added the most famous adult superstar on the planet.
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Laurie Simmons’ My Art Is as Singular as Its Title Promises
The story finds Simmons, as a 60ish Simmons-like artist named Ellie, dashing away from New York and her teaching duties to work and relax in a more successful acquaintance’s plush country manse
The Best May the Fourth Star Wars Day Events in Miami
Despite its too-cool-for-school reputation, Miami participates in the annual Star Wars revelry with film screenings, drink specials, trivia, and costume contests. Here’s your guide to May the Fourth options in South Florida, just in case you’re one of the many people looking to dress up and let your Star Wars flag fly.
Vida Is a Stellar Series About American Identity
Told through the unique lens of this Latinx family, Vida is a statement on upward mobility and the privilege of being able to outgrow your home
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The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week
How could you not love Ruth Bader Ginsburg? The 85-year-old Supreme Court justice has been rockin’ the highest court for 25 years and is as sharp as ever. It seems the only thing she has been missing is a solid biography — until now. As part of the Miami…
Netflix Doc Jewel’s Catch One Introduces the World to an African-American LGBTQ Crusader
Here’s a woman who has spent her entire life helping others and not being a piece of shit, and unless she or the club touched you personally, you probably didn’t know she existed until you read this or saw the film
Popcorn Frights Film Festival Moves to Fort Lauderdale’s Savor Cinema
After three years at O Cinema Wynwood, Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the Southeast’s largest horror film festival, is relocating to Fort Lauderdale’s Savor Cinema. There are plenty of reasons for the move, explains festival cofounder and codirector Igor Shteyrenberg.
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Into the Storm Tells the Story of Tragedy at Sea During Hurricane Joaquin
In October 2015, Category 3 Hurricane Joaquin ripped through the Caribbean. It was a storm that confounded meteorologists and sank the cargo ship El Faro, bound for Puerto Rico. Along with the vessel, 33 sailors were lost.
Bad Samaritan Throws Back to (But Pales Before) the Thrillers of the Clinton Era
… Bad Samaritan — with its title sounding very Grisham — tells the story of a low-level thief who breaks into a fancy-schmancy house and discovers a woman being held captive in a plastic-lined, camera-surveilled room
With the Bracing Tully, Charlize Theron and Co. Face Life After Young Adulthood
… Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have completed their trilogy of self-delusion with Tully, a gently sardonic look at a 40-year-old woman who finds herself in a cluttered house, with a clueless spouse, preparing to have a third child
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“DesteFashionCollection: 1 to 8” Displays Designer Garments as High Art
If you’ve visited the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, you’ve witnessed firsthand how powerful fashion can become when displayed in a museum setting. It might be hard to imagine fashion as art in everyday life, but displayed in an exhibition — and enhanced with impeccable art direction…
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Finds an Icon Yet Again Redefining Everything
… This is an intimate portrait of the artist in recent years as she returns to Jamaica, the country of her birth and childhood, for a family reunion
The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
It’s only Monday, but let’s cut to the chase: You’re already planning for Saturday’s Cinco de Mayo festivities. Before you start slamming tequila shots, slow down and celebrate Star Wars Day at Miami’s own Star Wars-themed brewery, J. Wakefield. And once you’ve recovered, wind down at the Little Haiti Book Festival or take your pet to Woofstock at the Barnacle Historic State Park.
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Ghost Stories Debunks Myth That Horror Anthology Can’t be Excellent
Equal parts spooky and cheeky, this film nails its black humor and finds a bizarre but satisfying conclusion to manage all the loose ends
Math Is Hard, but Hulu’s Tiny Shoulders Shows That Fixing Barbie Is Even Harder
Tiny Shoulders starts to feel like a publicity exercise for the brand — an attempt to humanize the company by showing us the real women behind all that plastic
Little Haiti Book Fest Celebrates Miami’s Vibrant Haitian Community
Miami’s vibrant Haitian community is proud to celebrate its heritage and culture, including its food, music, and literature. Next weekend, the sixth edition of the Little Haiti Book Festival, in partnership with the Miami Book Fair and the Haitian culture and language organization Sosyete Koukouy, will be held at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
Ozzy Osbourne, Danny Daze, Love Burn, Bad Bunny, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, April 27 through 29.